The inner end of the structure contained an adult and child, cattle bones, a bone point, some chert flakes and Neolithic pottery, including sherds bearing channelled decoration.
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In 1988, while digging at a Middle Stone Age site in Zaire called Katanda, Brooks and her husband, archaeologist John Yellen, were stunned to find a beautifully carved barbed bone point.
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In 1988, while digging at a Middle Stone Age site in Zaire called Katanda, Brooks and her husband, archaeologist John Yellen, were stunned to find a beautifully carved barbed bone point.
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The consistency of cattle bones points toward these small sites being temporary herding camps, where small groups of people would let their cattle graze and possibly hunt the other grazing animals found in the area, such as gazelles and hares.
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"We assumed the place was completely screwed up, because we thought we were dealing with a site that was at least 40, 000 to 50, 000 years old _ and bone points shouldn't be in anything that old ."
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The " in situ " finds of 1936 and 1937 included most of four stone Clovis points, two long bone points with impact damage, stone blades, a portion of a Clovis blade core, and several cutting tools made on stone flakes.
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They were replaced by technologies associated with the exploitation of smaller animals-shell fish hooks and bone points along the coast for fishing, axes for hunting possums across the woodlands, and adzes for sharpening digging sticks along the banks of the larger rivers where the yams were abundant.
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Based on previous work done by William S . Webb, William R . Perkins claims that spear-thrower weights, commonly called " bannerstones, " and characterized by a centered hole in a symmetrically shaped carved or ground stone, shaped wide and flat with a drilled hole and thus a little like a large spindle weight to produce string from natural fibers gathered while hunting, for the purpose of tying on fletching and hafting stone or bone points.
